How well does it handle Malay?
Accuracy is strong on clear audio; give names and technical terms a quick scan.
Standard Malaysian Malay; closely related Indonesian has its own page.
English and Arabic loanwords common in Malaysian speech come through correctly.
What you get
Speaker labels
Every voice in the recording is separated and labelled — works in Malay the same as in English, because diarization listens to voices, not words.
Word-level timestamps
Each word is timed to the audio, which is what makes accurate Malay SRT and VTT subtitle files possible.
Search & quote
The transcript is searchable in Malay — jump to the exact second something was said and copy it with its timestamp.
Every export
TXT, SRT, VTT, DOCX and JSON on every pack — no format paywall.
Who transcribes Malay audio here
Khutbahs, meetings, lectures.
Questions people ask
Do I need to tell it the audio is Malay?
No — the language is detected from the first seconds of audio automatically. If a recording mixes Malay and English, each part is transcribed in the language actually spoken.
Can I get English text from Malay audio?
Yes. Alongside transcription in Malay, the engine can translate the speech to English text in the same pass — useful for subtitling Malay content for an international audience.
Does it work on Malay video, not just audio?
Yes — upload MP4/MOV/WebM or paste a link; the audio track is extracted automatically and transcribed the same way.
How much does it cost?
The preview is instant with no signup. Credits are one-time purchases that never expire: $4 for 300 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes (about 36¢ per hour of audio).
Is this live captioning?
No — Whipscribe transcribes recordings, not live speech. Upload a file that already exists and the Malay transcript is typically ready in about a minute per half hour of audio.
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